Indiana Court of Appeals judges spent the better part of a 90-minute oral argument Nov. 25 focused on whether a trial judge’s
order applied the proper legal standards in awarding $62 million to IBM after the state canceled its $1.3 billion contract
to overhaul Indiana’s welfare administration.

Four-year-old litigation over $27 million lost by at least 27 Indiana public school systems that invested in a troubled teachers
union-sponsored health insurance plan has concluded with a settlement in which schools will receive about $14 million.

An appeals court Tuesday affirmed trial court orders that IBM pay a subcontractor for costs it incurred related to lawsuits
over the failed $1.3 billion Family and Social Services Administration modernization contract.

A $62 million judgment against the state for canceling a contract with IBM to overhaul Indiana’s social services administration
is clearly erroneous, an attorney for the state argued Monday, while an IBM lawyer argued the company was entitled to even
greater damages.

Attorney and real estate developer Paul J. Page will serve two years of probation and pay a $10,000 fine for concealing the
source of a $362,000 down payment on his purchase of a state-leased office building in Elkhart.

There is sufficient evidence to support the decision that a man must pay back unemployment benefits he used while working
and that the man falsified information in order to receive those benefits, the Indiana Court of Appeals held.

An administrative law judge in the Indiana Department of Education correctly imposed a two-year suspension of a special education
teacher’s license, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Thursday. The court found no error in the ALJ’s reliance
on a California case when considering whether to revoke or suspend a teaching license.

The Food and Drug Administration should restrict the sale and marketing of increasingly popular e-cigarettes, particularly
to minors, Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller advocates in joining a letter signed by AGs from 36 other states and three
U.S. territories.

An appeals court panel Thursday affirmed denial of unemployment benefits for a Starke County sheriff’s dispatcher who
took time off work after a firecracker exploded behind her at work and she was diagnosed with hearing loss, vertigo and tinnitus.

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg said there were plenty of reasons the city decided to embrace an open-data policy, putting
as many public records as possible online with a pioneering city website, Open Data South Bend.

Indiana’s ethanol industry faces an uncertain regulatory environment and likely more stringent emissions standards after
a recent Indiana Court of Appeals ruling. A state agency will ask the Indiana Supreme Court to hear the case, as several corn-to-fuel
plant operators also are expected to do.

Before dinner can be prepared and served at the table, the food has to be raised on a farm. However, Old MacDonald’s
Farm with its placid scenes of pigs and cows is a shrinking segment of American farming, being replaced with large industrial
agricultural operations with hundreds and thousands of animals.

The state’s largest teachers union and its national parent organization have agreed to pay $14 million under a tentative
settlement announced Tuesday morning by Indiana Secretary of State Connie Lawson and Indiana Securities Commissioner Chris
Naylor.

Indiana motorists who overpaid for driver’s licenses over the past six years will get the money back in the form of
a credit on their next transaction at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, the agency announced Friday.